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20 March 1880: National Bell Telephone merges with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company. 1 April 1880: world's first wireless telephone call on Bell and Tainter's photophone (distant precursor to fiber-optic communications) from the Franklin School in Washington, D.C. to the window of Bell's laboratory, 213 meters away. [20] [21]
The United Kingdom had 23.7 million residential fixed home phones. [2] A 2013 International Telecommunication Union report showed that the total number of fixed-telephone subscribers in the world was about 1.26 billion. [3] In many parts of the world, including Africa and India, the growth in mobile phone usage has outpaced that of landlines.
Shows Bell's second telephone transmitter , invented 1876 and first displayed at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia. This history of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Evenson, A. Edward (2000). The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray – Alexander Bell Controversy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Fischer, Claude S. (1994) America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940 (Univ of California Press, 1994)
The concept also appeared in Edward Bellamy's influential 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward: 2000-1887, which foresaw audio entertainment sent over telephone lines to private homes. The initial scattered demonstrations were followed by the development of more organized services transmitting news and entertainment, which were collectively ...
the Bell Homestead Museum, also known as Melville House, part of the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, the Bell family's first home in North America and the location where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in July 1874. Bells. the Bast Bell Museum, a bell museum in Germantown, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Telephone is a live album by bassist Ron Carter and guitarist Jim Hall recorded at the Concord Pavilion in 1984 and released on the Concord Jazz label. [1] [2] Reception
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